QLogic 2500 Series 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapter of 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapter of Choice in Oracle Environments Manual

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WHITE PAPER

Key Findings

For demanding enterprise database applications such as Oracle

, choosing the QLogic

FabricCache™ 10000 Series 8Gb Fibre

Channel Adapter provides:

• Up to 13 × IOPS increase over non-cached performance

Choosing the QLogic 2500 Series 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapter provides:

• Online transaction processing (OLTP): Up to 106 percent higher IOPS than Emulex

• Online analytical processing (OLAP): Up to 23 percent higher IOPS than Emulex

The 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapter of

Choice in Oracle Environments

QLogic’s 8Gb Adapters Outperform in

Oracle Environments

Summary of content (7 pages)

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White Paper The 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapter of Choice in Oracle Environments QLogic’s 8Gb Adapters Outperform in Oracle Environments Key Findings For demanding enterprise database applications such as Oracle®, choosing the QLogic® FabricCache™ 10000 Series 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapter provides: •• Up to 13 × IOPS increase over non-cached performance Choosing the QLogic 2500 Series 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapter provides: •• Online transaction processing (OLTP): Up to 106 percent higher IOPS than Emulex® •• Online an
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White Paper Executive Summary Today’s mission-critical database applications feature Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) workloads that demand the highest levels of performance from servers and their associated SAN storage infrastructure.
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White Paper A new class of server-side storage acceleration is the latest innovation in the market addressing this performance disparity. The idea is simple: fast, reliable, solid-state flash memory connected to the server brings faster data access to the Oracle server’s CPU. Flash memory, in the form of SSD media, is highly available in the market and promises to perform much faster than any rotational disk under typical, small, highly random, enterprise I/O workloads.
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White Paper Test Procedure To make the benchmarks relevant to today’s businesses, QLogic selected the market-leading Oracle Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) running on Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2008 R2. RDBMS on Windows is a very popular, highly scalable enterprise configuration in wide production use for both workloads described in the previous paragraphs. The tool used for predicting the performance of the Oracle database under load was Orion from Oracle.
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White Paper OLAP Workloads. Oracle implements OLAP within an Oracle database environment. The typical applications of OLAP are in business reporting for sales, marketing, Business Performance Management (BPM), budgeting and forecasting, financial reporting, and planning. Figure 5 shows an up to 23 percent performance advantage of QLogic over Emulex, with QLogic supporting higher overall IOPS for Oracle OLAP. for higher performance.
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White Paper Appendix A Appendix B Server Configuration FabricCache Adapter Test Configuration Intel Server Server Processor Type and Speed Intel Nahalem Quad Processor (dual socket) – total 8 cores Memory 24GB RAM OS Type Windows Server 2008 R2 Fibre Channel Adapter Hardware Fibre Channel Adapters QLogic QLE2560 Emulex LPe12000 Quantity of Servers Used 1 Host System Dell® PowerEdge™ R720 Processor Intel Xeon CPU E5-2640 0 @ 2.50GHz, 24 processors RAM 16GB Host OS RHEL 6.
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White Paper Disclaimer Reasonable efforts have been made to ensure the validity and accuracy of these performance tests. QLogic Corporation is not liable for any error in this published white paper or the results thereof. Variation in results may be a result of change in configuration or in the environment. QLogic specifically disclaims any warranty, expressed or implied, relating to the test results and their accuracy, analysis, completeness or quality.